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Gabriel Kamener

@gkamener.bsky.social
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Ecological and environmental data professional. I've been into science, nature, and photography for as long as I can remember. Viewpoints and opinions my own.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
"David, what do you mean it's a problem when well-intentioned but uninformed people try to guess how to solve a conservation problem?"
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Well-meaning people are accidentally drowning tortoises
Florida conservationists says well-meaning people are mistaking tortoises for turtles and putting them in the ocean.
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Well, I'm back from my West Texas party where we had a lot of fun but some balloons escaped and now it's time to check Bluesky but first let me get a big mouthful of water
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Running longitudinal projects with a team of people can quickly lead to confusing folder structures and file names. Creating a style guide that guides how folders are organized and files are named, can help ensure that files are easier to find and interpret. datamgmtinedresearch.com/style#style
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 06/09/2025
It's been six months since I started tracking the dire science news in my newsletter. For a long time, it felt like an ominous ocean swell. Now it feels like a breaking wave. buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...
Painting of a breaking wave
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Phil Manlick @pmanlick.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Nice highlight of research at LTER sites, including work being done at HJ Andrews Experimental Forest. We absolutely have to save both NSF LTER and USFS R&D who combined maintain some of the best long-term ecological datasets in the world.
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Karen R. Lips @karenrlips.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
🐝 🐝🐝 www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Bees are collapsing in the U.S. A key to their secrets might vanish.
The top federal lab on native bees is set to close under President Trump’s budget.
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I've been fortunate to have a network of data freelancers that have been a huge support in my own work. I've started a list of some of these consultants (in academia, nonprofit, public sector, and industry). If you are looking for help, check out this list! #databs docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Data Consultants
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Join the fight!
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
ESA Action Alert: Contact your senators to advocate to fund science agencies and programs – Ecotone | News and Views on Ecological Science esa.org/esablog/2025...
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ESA Action Alert: Contact your senators to advocate to fund science agencies and programs – Ecotone | News and Views on Ecological Science
June 2, 2025
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Oscar Baruffa @oscarbaruffa.com · 18/05/2025
I'm happy to announce the addition of 15 books to @bigbookofr.com including 9 in Portuguese! #Rstats oscarbaruffa.com/bbof-20250518/
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15 New Books added to Big Book of R - Oscar Baruffa
I’m very excited to announce that 6 English-language books and 9 Portuguese books have been added to the collection of over 400 free, open-source R programming books. Many thanks to Bruno Mioto for th...
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Long Term Ecological Research Network (United States) @uslter.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
We've been teaching students across the network synthesis science for the past year, and they've used their skills to do actual synthesis science in four group projects. Next Thursday, they present their work! Tune in to the SSECR Final Symposium on May 22 at 10am PT/1 ET. Register below!
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers (SSECR) Symposium. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Learn about the 4 synthesis projects developed in LTER's new Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers Course: - Carbon cycling responses across spatiotemporal scales - Coupling of above- and ...
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Long Term Ecological Research Network (United States) @uslter.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Science--including discovery science, STEM education, and data literacy--benefit **everyone**. Wherever you live, have a conversation today with your friends and neighbors! theconversation.com/unprecedente...
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Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves economic growth, national security and your life
The Trump administration has terminated hundreds of federal grants that support engineering, biology, geology, computer science, STEM education and much more.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
If you’re concerned about the impact of the proposed budget on Federal funding of science but aren’t sure what to say when you call your elected officials, remember that a coalition of professional societies representing nearly 100,000 scientists signed an open letter about this a few weeks ago. 🧪
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48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
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Eric Leung @erictleung.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
woah, when did RStudio gain this functionality that when you wait for autocomplete to finish, it'll show you a preview of that data object that it is suggesting in the autocomplete?? #RStats
screenshot of a coding integrated development environment showing an autocomplete suggestion, along with a preview of the underlying object
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WIRED @wired.com · 26/04/2025
When an AI customer service agent for code-editing company Cursor hallucinated a new company policy, users revolted.
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An AI Customer Service Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy—and Created a Mess
When an AI model for code-editing company Cursor hallucinated a new rule, users revolted.
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Jumping Rivers @jumpingrivers.com · 11/04/2025
New version of R is out! Our Data Scientist, Russ Hyde, has put together a quick review of the key features and changes in R 4.5 — from new language features to graphics updates and more. 📝 Read the full blog post here: www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/whats-n... #rstats #Rprogramming #opensource
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What's new in R 4.5.0?
Here we summarise some of the more interesting changes that have been introduced in R 4.5.0.
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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 03/04/2025
most people don't even use 10% of the computer
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Inspired by a recent conversation, and by this article (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...), I have been working on a one-pager to help researchers through the process of updating published datasets if errors are ever found. I'd love any feedback!
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
In 2018 I gave a presentation on research data management to a group of graduate students. Not surprisingly, most of the problems and solutions I discussed 7 years ago, are still the same problems and solutions I see today. #databs
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
🧪 Science Feeds 🧪 A list of ~240 BlueSky science feeds and their hashtags! docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #AcademicSky #PhDSky
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a man is standing in front of a sphere with the words science written on it .
ALT: a man is standing in front of a sphere with the words science written on it .
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
At least once a week I wonder if what I do makes sense anymore. Does anyone really want to hear about simple organizational practices that lead to better data? And then every week I encounter someone that didn't know about data dictionaries, or file versioning, or quality control. So, I keep at it.
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WUSF @wusf.org · 05/03/2025
The Florida Legislature will consider a higher education bill that sponsors say would strengthen transparency in the hiring of state university presidents. wusf.org/politics-iss...
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Florida legislators file measures to make public the hiring process of university presidents
The bill would also establish term limits for members of the State University Board of Governors, the Board of Education, state university boards of trustees and Florida College System boards of trust...
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Rob Davis @robwdavis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!
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Computational Journalist
New York, New York, United States
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Gabriel Kamener @gkamener.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New paper out in Nature by some of my colleagues! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #metadata #units #ontology #science #scientificdata #annotation
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Using a units ontology to annotate pre-existing metadata - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Using a units ontology to annotate pre-existing metadata
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Have you always wanted to be a marine biologist? We are now offering fundraiser charter shark research expeditions! Join me for a day of shark research while supporting the lab's effort's to bring school groups out on future trips. Join as an individual, or charter the whole day for your group!
Flier for our fundraiser charter shark research expeditions!
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Ted R. Kahn @tedrkahn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
#darwinday Enjoy!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
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Gabriel Kamener @gkamener.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Wow!
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Tips for PIs running research teams who are looking to improve their data management 1. Create standardized processes 2. Delegate tasks 3. Build in data oversight 4. Cultivate buy-in for data management 5. Document everything 6. Check data often 7. Review and revise processes as a team
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Josh Daskin @joshdaskin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Archbold Biological Station is hiring a spatial ecologist for a new project automating mapping of prescribed fires in the Everglades Headwaters. www.archbold-station.org/careers/
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Careers at Archbold | Archbold Biological Station
Archbold offers purposeful, varied work with excellent benefits—at one of the most renowned biological field stations in the world.
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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Snowed In
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Houston Chandler @thesnakedude.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Going to give this a try. Posting mostly about conservation work with The Orianne Society. Lots of cool reptile and amphibian research. This Eastern Indigo Snake is one of the species that we work with a lot. Endemic to the southeastern US and the longest native #snake in the US.
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Long Term Ecological Research Network (United States) @uslter.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
We're excited to see a bunch of LTER sites making their way over to BlueSky! Our sites are the heart of our network—they're the places advancing our understanding of ecology, one 40-year study at at time. You can follow all of our sites on BlueSky using our starter pack here: go.bsky.app/MrcEQVV
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Nancy Knowlton @nancyknowlton.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Polkadots on windows reduced bird collisions by 95% - my news to me good news for Jan 21. #EarthOptimism #BeyondTheObituaries www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/bir...
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Innovative 'polka dot' glass is saving thousands of birds from deadly window collisions
In October 2023, a thousand birds died in a single day after colliding with a Chicago convention center. Thanks to new bird-friendly glass, that number has shrunk dramatically.
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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 19/01/2025
Tardigrades differ! There’s an estimated 1,000 different species of tardigrades & they’re found on every continent. There are marine & terrestrial tardigrades, but they’re all technically aquatic animals. This tardigrade I filmed is Acutuncus antarcticus, a species that’s endemic to Antarctica. 🧪🦠
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Gabriel Kamener @gkamener.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Filing under animals easily mistaken for muppets or Pokemon. 😂
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Data Management job with the Humane Society 👇🐶 us242.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePor...
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Job opportunity at - Data Analyst III
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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
A male Southern Rock Agama (Agama atra) peeks over the top of a boulder in the western Free State, South Africa. This peeking seems to be a common behavior among this species, and the males can rapidly lose their blue hue when approached. #herps #lizards #NaturePhotography 🌿
A side view of a lizard peeking over the top of a pinkish boulder. All that is visible of the lizard is the head, neck, and one limb.  The scales of the head and neck of the lizard are a bright blue, save for the eye and ear, which are a brown color.
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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.me · 09/01/2025
This is a HUGE deal. Congrats to the team. 🧪
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Victor Geislinger @victorsvector.com · 07/01/2025
Great documentary on the life of one of the last 'artisanal data collectors' youtu.be/eDr6_cMtfdA How many of us started off with simply a pen & paper and an unexplainable drive to 'data'?? Remember your small data roots & come back home #dataBS
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Small Data
YouTube video by KRAZAM
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Matt Betts @mattbetts42.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Super article by Marina Ritchie about grad students at the HJ Andrews NSF-LTER and their resilience to our recent wildfires: www.nwf.org/Home/Magazin... @uslter.bsky.social
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Undaunted, Grad Students Return to the Field After Wildfires
Young researchers see the wildfires that paused their field work in Oregon’s H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest as lessons for the future
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Damien C-C @dccc-phd.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
"Switching languages is about switching mindsets - not just syntax. New developments in python data science toolings, like polars and seaborn’s object interface, can capture the ‘feel’ that converts from R/tidyverse love while opening the door to truly pythonic workflows."
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Python Rgonomics | Emily Riederer
Switching languages is about switching mindsets - not just syntax. New developments in python data science toolings, like polars and seaborn’s object interface, can capture the ‘feel’ that converts fr...
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I make a lot of silly data management memes so I decided to drop them all in a github repository, in case anyone ever wants to use them. 🙃 github.com/Cghlewis/dat...
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GitHub - Cghlewis/datamgmt_memes
Contribute to Cghlewis/datamgmt_memes development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Just a reminder that you don't have to be a statistician, or a programmer, or an analyst, or a data engineer, or a viz designer to benefit from #rstats. It's also amazing just for basic data management tasks. Especially thanks to the #tidyverse.
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Long Term Ecological Research Network (United States) @uslter.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Love writing about science? Now accepting applications for our LTER Graduate Writing Fellows! Students write stories about LTER research, and get tons of support from the Network Office. Develop comms skills that aren't offered in a grad program! Apps close Nov 31. lternet.edu/stories/love...
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Love writing about science? Now accepting applications for our 2024 LTER Graduate Writing Fellows program! - LTER
Now accepting applications for the 2024 cohort of LTER Graduate Writing Fellows.
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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This app needs more #herps 😤 If you’ve got ‘em, come hang out in the Reptiles & Amphibians Feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...
A nile crocodile lays at the edge of a river, its head resting on the sand. Its teeth can be seen with its mouth closeda green frog with red eyes, yellow feet, and blue leg undersides sitting on a leafA vibrant green lizard with blue feet, orange stripes on its face and spots on its back, and scattered yellow scales.A tan puff adder snake with its tongue out lays in the middle of a dirt road
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Marie 🌿 @bubblesartcraft.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
pumpkin patch frogs
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